Microsoft is gradually rolling out the AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders in the Release Preview channel before making it generally available to all Windows users with Copilot+ PCs.

Recall is an opt-in Windows feature that screenshots active windows every few seconds, analyzes them, and allows Windows 11 users to search text within the snapshots using natural language.

As the Windows Insider Program Team said on Thursday, Recall can be paused whenever needed and will only allow access to the data it captures after authenticating via Windows Hello.

  • LupusBlackfur
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    681 month ago

    Is now, always has been, and always will be a bad idea, a security nightmare, and of benefit only to M$ and its so-called “AI” offerings…

    Should be permanently disabled on all systems, particularly on corporate systems.

    🙄 🤡

  • Singletona082
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    511 month ago

    ‘opt in’

    Yeeeaa i don’t believe that for one damned minute.

    • Mike
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      It’s opt-in in the same way the Co-pilot that one day just appeared installed on your computer was opt-in. /s

  • @commander@lemmy.world
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    431 month ago

    The more users on Linux, the more commercial software will target it. Can already get Davinci Resolve and Autodesk Maya. Drive traffic to see more

  • @d3lta19@lemmy.ca
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    291 month ago

    As much as everyone seems to hate Recall, I really appreciate it. It was the final push I needed to go to Linux full time. Have been on Linux for 6 months now and can’t imagine going back to windows.

    • @chaogomu@lemmy.world
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      51 month ago

      It was one of the reasons I switched. That and my favorite mod manager is working on a Linux native version. It’s not done yet, but it’s good to play other games from time to time.

      Valheim is pretty brutal, but also highly moddable.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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    261 month ago

    I love how no matter how much the market makes it explicitly clear that an idea is absolutely terrible, Microsoft will just be like, “we’re doing it anyway, fuck you.” The best argument for Linux is just to gesture vaguely at Windows.

  • @funkforager@sh.itjust.works
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    221 month ago

    Hey gamers: try bazzite Linux and you won’t ever have to worry about this. Try bringing one old machine over as a test and you’ll see for yourself.

    I got it running in an afternoon recently. It reads all your windows docs off an external backup. The desktop version really can be a daily driver. The update script is a single click. Genuinely worth considering if you want at least some of your computer usage to not be recorded 24/7.

    • @CommanderShepard@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      Sadly, it still has a lot of rough edges for an average computer user. Quite a few games do not work out of the box, and require some setting up

  • @Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    191 month ago

    Imagine paying for a surveillance machine that takes pictures and records everything you do ready to regurgitate it to anyone who asks. The fact that anyone sees this as anything other than dystopian is a bridge to far for me.

    • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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      41 month ago

      Android has been doing shit like this for years. It’s a marketing tool more than anything. But there’s a weird tribalism around Android so everyone just forgives it. But when windows does it people suddenly care about privacy.

      I’m tired.

      • Mike
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        11 month ago

        Its not like there isn’t a backlash against Android either. There’s a reason why projects like GrapheneOS exist.

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    Alternative title:

    Windows users start final Linux testing before rollout

  • ssillyssadass
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    41 month ago

    I’m kind of tempted to keep using Windows just to remove these features as a big middle finger to MS.

    • @meeeeetch@lemmy.world
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      21 month ago

      Shrinking their market share is a much bigger middle finger. If you use their product and shut off a bunch of features, you’re still using the rest of their product and its other features.

  • Mike
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    41 month ago

    No worries, I also started test driving Linux a month ago in preparation for when Windows 10 stops being officially supported.

  • Magnus
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    31 month ago

    My system won’t update for some reason despite all my efforts. Maybe this is not such a bad thing…

  • @SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    31 month ago

    I thought the people called Microsoft on their bullshit, Microsoft then listened and decided to stop pursuing AI proliferation? No?